Hakluyt
01-17-2006, 08:29 PM
Heidegger on Ontotheology: Technology and the Politics of Education
Iain D. Thomson, Heidegger on Ontotheology: Technology and the Politics of Education, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 224pp, $24.99 (pbk), ISBN 052161659x.
Reviewed by Daniel Dahlstrom, Boston University
This impressive study argues that Heidegger's deconstruction of metaphysics as ontotheology, when suitably understood, provides the key to his misunderstood critique of technology and to the underappreciated potential of his thought to contribute to efforts to respond to "our own growing crisis in higher education." The author is well versed in Heidegger's thought and the extensive secondary literature on it and he puts this expertise to superb use in a text that is lucidly written with intelligence, verve, and conviction. There is always room for criticism (see infra) of an undertaking this ambitious. But, whatever the merits of these reservations, this book makes a strong case for the enduring significance of Heidegger's later thought at the crossroads of technology and education.
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Iain D. Thomson, Heidegger on Ontotheology: Technology and the Politics of Education, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 224pp, $24.99 (pbk), ISBN 052161659x.
Reviewed by Daniel Dahlstrom, Boston University
This impressive study argues that Heidegger's deconstruction of metaphysics as ontotheology, when suitably understood, provides the key to his misunderstood critique of technology and to the underappreciated potential of his thought to contribute to efforts to respond to "our own growing crisis in higher education." The author is well versed in Heidegger's thought and the extensive secondary literature on it and he puts this expertise to superb use in a text that is lucidly written with intelligence, verve, and conviction. There is always room for criticism (see infra) of an undertaking this ambitious. But, whatever the merits of these reservations, this book makes a strong case for the enduring significance of Heidegger's later thought at the crossroads of technology and education.
continued (http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=5361)